The urn is recorded in Revere's ledgers, where on April 20, 1791, a debit is charged to Mrs. Hannah Rowe for a silver tea urn weighing 111 ounces. It is the earliest and the largest of the three known tea or coffee urns by Revere.

Hannah Speakman Rowe (1725–1805); to her great-niece Hannah Rowe Linzee Amory (1775–1845); according to family history, to her daughter Mary Linzee Amory Dexter (1798–1859); to her son Edward Amory Dexter (1819–1865); to his daughter Ellen Amory Dexter King (b. 1858); to her son Albert Freeman Amory King (1896–1979); to his daughter Elizabeth Dexter King Rodiger (b. 1929); with Firestone & Parker, Inc., Boston; purchased by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990.